Straits Echo, 6 August 1917

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, 31QNDAY, 6th AUGUST, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 182.
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    FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.
    631 2 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] OVER «,000 PRISONERS. LOST GROUND REGAINED. Sir Doaglas Haig’s Report. London, August, 4, 12,15 a m. Fieid Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our troops hare re-established themselves at St. Julien. Oar fire broke up in* fantry massing for a counter-attack to the north of the
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    557 2 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Situation Uickuftd. London, August 3, 11.5 a.m. A French communique states: Bid weather continues in Belgium. The situation is unchanged. A German attempt to rush our lines east of Cerny completely failed.” Progress Beyosl Korkeet. London, August 4. A French communique reports Despite bad weather in
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    646 2 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] DECISIVE REACTION. Grovadi lor Hope. Petrograd, August 3. The Commissioner at the South-West 1 Front reports that the armies of General r Korniloff, especially the Eleventh Army the regiments of which receatly retired of their own accord, are now vigorously repulsing all attempts of a powerful
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    RUSSIA IN FERMENT.
    614 2 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] M. Kerensky’s Order. Petrograd, August 4, M. Kerensky, the Premier, i n n orH. forbids the assemblies of military or committees. The soldier, and men i of the mutinous regiments have been ordered to wear black band, round their arms till they have regained their
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    IN MESOPOTAMIA.
    705 3 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] TURKISH OFFENSIVE PREPARING. Gccral vox Fslkesksya ia Coaaaad. London, August 3. The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Athens states that a great Turkish offensive Id Mesopotamia, fixed for September, ia being prepared. Twa divisions from Galicia and two from the Dobrudja have been concentrated at Aleppo wbither
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    WAR ANNIVERSARY.
    1608 3 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ROYAL MESSAGES. To tke Kia| of tke Belgisxa, London, August 4, The Press Bureau announces that His Majesty tbe King hae telegraphed totho King of the Belgians as follows On the third anniversary of the day on which my country threw in its forces against tbs
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    PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION.
    2110 3 SATURDAY'S MEETING. 1 I A Representative Gatkeriag, I August 4, the day of our declaration ol I war three years ago, was celebrated in Penang by a demonstration on the EsplanI ade in which the different communities joined together to affirm for the third tinm their inflexible determination
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    Rating Appeals.
    581 3 i The John Little Case. i (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Sengapore, August 4. In the Supreme Court yesterday the Chief Justice, Sir J. A. S, Bucknil), delivered a lengthy judgment in the rating appeal of Messrs. John Little and Co, The result was a reduction of the Municipal
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    The Fourth Year.
    117 3 Sir Douglas Haig's Message. H. E- the Governor has received the following message from the Sicretary of State for the Colonies “August 4-Sir Douglas Hiig sends the following our France, drawn from every pait of the British Empire, bring to the fourth year of the war a
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